The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-21

A year or two ago we read with
Of envy the accounts Of the
way towns were booming In the
part of the State. It was
reported that towns no larger than
ours were doing twice as much bust
ness. with rents and property away up,
and promising to go still higher. And
rs we read we could not help wishing
that our lot had been cast In one Of
these places instead of such . sedate,
city n lola. Now however,
we learn that these"booming" western
towns have died the death. The mer-
chants that have paid the high rents
have "gone broke" the property that
cost 30 much money is lying idle and
block upon block of costly buildings
stand empty. We do not rejoice at
this, for it is not pleasant to know of
loss suffered by any one. Wedo not
rejoice, but we do not feel so restless as
we did because we had to remain in
lola. If we have not grown suddenly
rich, we have not lost anything. Our
town is growing steadily better even
the hard times. Property il
more here now than it was two
years ago or q year ago. In short we
have been sensible. We have not
forced the town ahead Of its support,
we will have no tarvation
period of waiting to endure. The
position we have taken is one we can
hold, and when we move again it will
be forward and not backward.
Business required our absence fro m
town last Saturday. 50 we are unable
to give detailed report Of the third
party mass convention. We are in
however,tha there were some
twenty id attendance, and that, disre-
tho well meant advice of the
and overlooking the fact
that there is already one ticket of
in the field, they put in
candidates for all the Of
fees, as follows: For clerk, John
Lehman, lola township; for treasurer,
n. L. Vezie. Carlyle; for register of
deeds, L. S.Childs, Geneva; for Sheriff,
B. +. Clark. lola; for coroner DR.. NJ.
DeMoss, lola. 1.-THE candidacy of
Judge StillweYwas endorsed as was
also that of A. o. Christian for county
surveyor. No nomination was made
for commissioner. OF course nobody
believes for moment that any of these
tes-excepting of course Judge
Stillwell and Mr.. Christian-will be
Mr.. Clark, the nominee for
sheriff, stated before the convention
that if he thought there was the least
chance of his election he would not be
q candidate. This being true Of the
entire ticket, the query is, Why is it in
the field? The columns Of the REGIS
TER are at the disposal of any one
who wants to furnish US reason.
The new WarderG Grand Opera House
the magnificent theater situated ut the
corner of Ninth and Holmes streets,
Kansas City, will be formally dedicat-
ed by the Booth and Barrett combina-
ton on Monday October oath, the
lasting through the en-
tire week with the following repertoire
Julius Caesar; Tuesday,
OthellO; Wednesday. Hamlet; Thurs
day. Macbeth; Friday, Othello; Sat-
urday matinee, Hamlet; Saturday eve
ming, Julius Caesar. The prices range
from f1.0O to $500 and good seats can
seats can still be procured by address
ing Craig and Hamilton, sos Walnut
street,-as the house seats about 3Oi6
than the ellis and
Coates combined. A number of our
citizens have expressed their intention
Of going up next week.
GaTnett Pldin6edler: The misunder-
i'm Rich township between
the citizens and the Parsons & Pacific
company, out Of an error in the
petition OIL which aid was voted
wherein the railroad line was made to
run half mile or more east of the de-
sired location, has been settled to a de-
gree by the railroad company agreeing
to submit new proposition to the vO-
ters of that township. To that end an
election has been called to take place
late in November, at which the people
will have an opportunity to end the
by voting aid to the q.
mount of SIS, 900 in township bonds
the old proposition being for S25 900.
We give considerable space in this
issue to lola, but we also give consid.
prsble space to Allen county. We are
anxious to build up lola, but we be-
lieve that one way to do it is to build
up Allen county. lola is and will al
ways remain the leading town in the
county. Just in proportion then as
the county develops and fills up, the
Town will also increase. This county
will easily support twice the popula-
ion it has now; and when it reaches
that point it is inevitable that lola
will also have double or more than
neutrality-suspicious. and bust
ness. While working for lola, then
let us also work for Allen county. The
way to fatten one finger is to fatten the
whole ha nd.
In inviting outside parties to come
to lola and invest in city property, we
DO not want to be understood as guar
anteeing them that they will get in a
mouth or two SIS, 900 for lots they paid
800 for; but We do want to assure them
that they will realize handsome
margin on their investment. "a
town that is liberal, bnt reasonable"
says Noble Prentis, Contemplating but
not crazy; where the business men are
united and stand by their town, keep
up its streets, its schools, its newspa-
pers, its churches; talk of it, advertise
it, believe in it; why the lots in that
town are as good as gold in London
bank" And that is lola to dot.
Owing to the nature of this edition
Of the REGISTER and the special pur-